Raeschke-Kessler, Hilmar

Rechtsanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof (elected member to the bar of the German Supreme Court, 39 members only); honorary professor at the University of Cologne.

• 1965-1969 Universities of Göttingen and Bonn
• 1974-1975 - LL.M. University of Chicago Law School
• 1974 - Admission to Bar
• 1975-1978 Associate with Peltzer & Riesenkampff, Frankfurt/Main, now CMS Hasche Sigle
• 1979-1985 Partner of Hoffmann, Raeschke-Kessler, Liebs, Düsseldorf, now Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch Ruhe

Arbitrator (institutional and ad hoc): > 40; chairman: >25; sole arbitrator: >5; counsel: 7; consultant: 3; expert: 4

• Chapter „Germany“ in Carter (ed.), The International Arbitration Review, 1. Ed. (2008) – 6. Ed. (2015)
• Discovery in International Commercial Arbitration ? in Böckstiegel/Berger/Bredow (ed.)
• The Taking of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration, volume 26, Carl Heymanns Verlag 2010, pp. 45 et seq.
• Corruption in Foreign Investment - Contracts and Dispute Settlement between Investors, States, and Agents, in: The Journal of World Investment & Trade, Vol. 9, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 5-33.

• Board Member German Arbitration Institution (DIS)
• Past Vice Chair International Bar Association (IBA) - Committee on Arbitration (Committee D)
• Past Member working groups International Bar Association (IBA) - Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (1999), their review in 2010 and IBA-Guidelines on Conflicts in International Arbitration (2004)
• Vice President German branch of the International Law Association - ILA)
• Member ICC - Commission on International Arbitration
• Swiss Association of Arbitration (ASA)
• Board Member Heidelberg Center for International Dispute Resolution at the University Heidelberg
• panel member: ICDR, SIAC, VIAC, klrc
• observer at UNIDROIT, Rome.